It's a reference to the first Superman movie with Chris Reeves...Lois is killed in an earthquake, and he flys around the Earth backwards making it spin in the other direction...thereby reversing time...saving Lois.
Which is impossible, and actually it's a really, really stupid idea, but I love the movie, and Superman, so I deal with it as best I can.
The biggest difference would probably be direction of the prevailing winds.
The jet stream would blow the other direction. A lot of storms follow the jet stream. It would affect weather patterns but hard to predict how. Climate would certainly change for inland areas.
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In order for the world to spin the other way it would have to slow down to a stop then start spinning the other way. I think that would make a real mess.
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yes nick, it would be really messy, like if you were eating oatmeal it would fall on your lap.
farmer....stop.....you're making me dizzy......ooooo....(sit's down on ground and holds onto the earth)
NickFun wrote:In order for the world to spin the other way it would have to slow down to a stop then start spinning the other way. I think that would make a real mess.
the slowdown to a stop part already happened once, according to Joshua in the Old Testament:
Quote:10:12 Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
10:13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
and in 2 Kings 20, it went back 10 degrees:
Quote: 9 And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have of the LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?
10 And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.
11 And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the LORD: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.
Verily Gordon Lightfoot lyrics - (Sayeth unto you)
10 Degrees And Getting Colder
He was standin' by the highway with a sign that just said Mother!
When he heard a driver comin'
Bout a half a mile away
Then he held the sign up higher,
Where no decent soul could miss it
It was ten degrees or colder
Down by bolder dam that day
He was raised up in Milwaukee-
Though he never was that famous
He was just a road musician-
To the taverns he would go
Singin' songs about the ramblin'-
The lovin' girls and gamblin'
How the world fell on his shoulders-
Back in Boulder I don't know
It was out in Arizona-
That he heard the lady listening
To each word that he was sayin'-
To each line that he would write
So he sat downby her table and
They talked about the weather
Ninety-eight point six and risin'-
Down by Boulder dam that day
And she told him she would take him-
For a ridein the mornin' sun,
Back in Boulder he had told her,
I don't know when I had a better friend
Now he's traded off his Martin-
But his troubles are not over
For his feet are almost frozen-
And the sun is sinkin' low
Won't you listen to me brother-
If you ever loved your mother
Please pull off on the shoulder-
If you're goin'
Milwaukee way
It's ten degrees and getting colder-
Down by Boulder dam today
I'll play this game. If an "outside force" magically caused the Earth to immediately start spinning in reverse, the first effect you would notice is humongous tidal flooding, as well as tremendous geological activity...new mountains as the crust of the Earth itself moved was bunched up, and many new volcanoes. The surface and ocean temperature would also be dramatically heated due to the intense friction of the crust. This would lead into a bunch of those catastrophic predictions you hear linked to global warming. It could even lead to a runaway greenhouse effect causing all of the planet's water to be evaporated, raising the temperature to extremely high numbers melting everything, and the hydrogen to escape into space, followed by subsequent freezing and oxidation of the planet, leaving a frigid arid and lifeless red rock much like Mars.
stuh505 wrote:I'll play this game. If an "outside force" magically caused the Earth to immediately start spinning in reverse, the first effect you would notice is humongous tidal flooding, as well as tremendous geological activity...new mountains as the crust of the Earth itself moved was bunched up, and many new volcanoes. The surface and ocean temperature would also be dramatically heated due to the intense friction of the crust. This would lead into a bunch of those catastrophic predictions you hear linked to global warming. It could even lead to a runaway greenhouse effect causing all of the planet's water to be evaporated, raising the temperature to extremely high numbers melting everything, and the hydrogen to escape into space, followed by subsequent freezing and oxidation of the planet, leaving a frigid arid and lifeless red rock much like Mars.
whoa, maybe I should rethink initiating my world reverse defrugtromator.
I set it on a timer, let's hope it's not too late.
ummm....now what was that access password again?....
Oh yeah and Chai, even if none of that happens, it will cause the Earth to slowly increase it's orbit distance from the sun, causing it to cool over time. Earth might end up becoming a moon of Jupiter or Saturn, or, if the sun does not go die out by the time it gets far enough away, Earth might reach escape velocity and be hurtled across the galaxy to be captured by some other distant solar system. Actually it might get trapped in the asteroid belt...I don't know, it all depends on math I haven't worked out.
...don't know what would happen if earth starts to spin the other way ...(will we all be thrown of the rollercoaster
?).
i've read a number of scientific articles that predict a "pole reversal" is much more likely to happen .
i know that some german universities have looked at this and come up with scenarios - apparently we would likely survive , but communication systems would be degraded .
hbg
...POLE REVERSAL...
...anyone want to come along for the ride
here is another - somewhat more scientific - explanation by the british geological survey on the
...MAGNETIC FLIP...
apparently these 'flips ' have taken place a number of times during the lifespan of the earth ... oh , oh , here comes another one
.
hbg
